Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)

Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 03:56:17 +0000

(John Morrow) writes:
>To simulate this in a game with one month turns would require the
>addition of logical operators such as...<example>

The underlying premise we don't agree upon is that you think your
units should act like they can react in a timely fashion to market
problems.  You correctly point out that to do this "right" would
require greatly increasing the complexity of orders.  But you ignore
the other possibility: maybe Olympia simply won't model the ability
to react faster than one month.  After all, you can't react more quickly
than in one month to attackers, weather, and many other things.  Why
do you assume that you are going to have that ability wrt the market?

>...In addition, how do you feel that the other goods should be dealt
>with?  You explain quite a bit about trade goods but whata bout
>weapons, armors, etc.?

In my opinion, regular goods like weapons and armor should either be
left on the current system or modeled with NPC manufacturers/traders.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 23:43:39 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Sat, 20 Jun 1992 21:31:41 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Sun, 21 Jun 1992 17:46:47 +0000